Assessments and Diagnosis
What is the purposes of formal diagnoses:
Helps clinicians communicate with each other
Lowering financial barriers to treatment is a Harm Reduction _________________
What is a strategy
What approach is not considered in the text to be strengths-based
what are solution-focused interventions
The ________ is an approach designed to help mentally ill persons in trouble with the law stay out of jail by diverting them into treatment.
Mental Health Court Movement
Compulsive gambling surveys consistently report that ______ are the group most likely to experience pathological gambling problems.
Men
Which is the only alcohol screening test designed and validated for international use in a wide variety of populations, cultures, and languages?
AUDIT
Women-specific treatment programs are more likely to provide
residential beds for client’s children
Assumes the future can be created and negotiated regardless of the problem
Which of the following characterizes Solution-focused therapy
Mandatory minimum sentences apply to everything that has to do with the substances except
Alcohol
Compared to the average national poverty rate of 15.9%, the average poverty rate for American Indians and Alaskan Natives is
29.2%
The principle advantage of screening tools is to provide
A method of quickly detecting the possibility of addiction problems
The outcome measurement for harm reduction therapy is
What is any step in the direction of reducing harm
SMART recovery is drawn from the principles of
What is cognitive behavioral therapy
In the U.S., __ states have some form of legal gambling, only ______ of which appropriate money for treatment
48, around half
The bulk of money related to the war on drugs is diverted into
military and law enforcement operations.
Legal threats to pregnant women who are using drugs during pregnancy have resulted in less women seeking assessment and __________________
not seeking prenatal care
Harm reduction strategies for alcohol misuse are based on the premise that alcohol use ranges across a continuum, starting with no consequences for use and ending with ____________ for use.
devastating consequences
Does not require people to believe in a Christian God but suggests a higher power can help with recovery
Alcoholics Anonymous
The TANF guidelines that encourage states to deny cash assistance or food stamps to persons with recent
drug felony convictions
Family Therapy seeks to understand addiction as a _________
family issue rather than a one person issue.
A recommended way to build trust with gay and lesbian clients who are seeking assessment and treatment is _________________
post a Safe Place symbol on a pink triangle
exploring and resolving ambivalence is a goal of?
goal of motivational interviewing
maladaptive thinking and bad habits are the mechanisms that cause addictive problems is based on what treatment modality?
cognitive behavioral therapy
According to their own statistics the U.S. Department of Justice (2015), around _____ of inmates in the federal prison are serving time for direct drug related crime may more are serving due to indirect use.
1/2 of all prisoners
Women caring for minor children (prior to incarceration in prison) make up approximately what percent of all women offenders?
around 70%